Evolutionary History The okapi is the closest relative of the giraffe. Here is the evolution of the okapi starting at the Holocene Era. The Holocene, which is what we live in, contains the Okapia johnstoni and the Giraffa camelopardalis. The Pleistocene Era has many more relatives of the okapi. It has the above mentioned giraffe species along with the Giraffa jumae, the Giraffa gracilis, the Giraffa sivalensis, the Okapia stillei, the Sivatherium giganteum, and the …showed first 75 words of 845 total…

…showed last 75 words of 845 total…able to obtain a skin and two skulls of this strange animal which he sent to Johnston. Armed with these findings, Johnston wrote back to the Zoological Society of London and sent his priceless cargo along with it. So was recognized the okapi, or forest giraffe. Today, the okapi doesn't have very much of an affect on humans except for the few people that study it in the wild and care for it in captivity.